23rd ‘Banana Fish’ Anime Episode Previewed

The new anime adaptation of the Banana Fish manga from Akimi Yoshida kicked off on July 5th, 2018 to celebrate Yoshida’s 40th-anniversary debut of the work. The series is part of the noitaminA block on Fuji TV in July on Amazon Video worldwide where it’ll run for two-cour and the official site has now updated a preview of the twenty-third episode that arrives on December 13th, 2018. The show has set Hiroko Utsumi to direct based on the series composition by Hiroshi Seko. Akemi Hayashi is on board with the character designs and MAPPA will be animating it.

Plot Concept: Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A runaway brought up as the adopted heir and sex toy of “Papa” Dino Golzine, Ash, now at the rebellious age of seventeen, forsakes the kingdom held out by the devil who raised him. But the hideous secret that drove Ash’s older brother mad in Vietnam has suddenly fallen into Papa’s insatiably ambitious hands—and it’s exactly the wrong time for Eiji Okamura, a pure-hearted young photographer from Japan, to make Ash Lynx’s acquaintance…

Chris has been writing about anime, manga, movies and comics for well on twenty years now. He began AnimeOnDVD.com back in 1998 and has covered nearly every anime release that’s come out in the US ever since.